Outcomes of bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy without a maintenance schedule for high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer in the second transurethral resection era.

Accurate disease staging and disease elimination by second transurethral resection followed by eight weekly bacillus Calmette-Guérin instillations achieved good disease control. Our protocol (without a maintenance schedule) after thorough surgical resection has potential as a treatment option in the current bacillus Calmette-Guérin shortage.